Oregano, hah psh, in these time, what do you exoect at 8 i had my first smoke, in scouts, at 12 i was playing pranks in school with chocolate ex lax. Kids are kids, this kid even hid it lol. Hiding oregeno...riiiiight.

Then cocaine for show, and tell? Wtf is this kid's uncle robert downey jr? Fuckin it's like that guy's(Johnny depp portrayed him in "blow") daughter from the 60-80's. All....yea...this is the crank my dad sells *sniff* *sniff* SNUFFLEUPAGUS wooooo, anyone wanna try any?

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These days? How is this different from any other time weeve? You said yourself that you had your first smoke at 8. My dad tells me all the time about crazy shit kids did at his high school, like huff gasoline out of a rag in the back of math class. The only difference is this is now national news.

These days the media, along with commercialism are warping everything from poltical, and governmental systems to economical markets. Yea sure you can shrug, and act like it's still 1995, but my friend it is not. Big shootings at schools, kids being heavily bombarded with sex, drugs, and death in a way that would have catatonically white faced our parents back in those days. Bringing them to hide us in caves or some shit afraid of what america, and the world is becoming.

I first smoked at 8, I first saw death at 18, then 19 family wise. At 18 I dealt with my father almost dieing. Yet things like more war, wtc, bombings all over becoming more prevalent these kids today have to deal with not only seeing, and feeling mass death. But having it literally choke fed to their minds in school, at home, at friend's houses. People's moral decisions are changing. I remember watching nasa launches, and romeo & juliet at school.

huff gasoline. Big deal, I did drugs, and drank when I was 12 yea yea. But kids today at 10, and below bring drugs into school, kids below driving age bringing guns into school, parents lacking in support, and moral/ethical backing for their kids. In short their trying to control, not help, or suggest to their kids, having them fight more so then ever. The only difference isn't national news.

My eyes are wide open, awake, what about the other couple billion with minorities having sight. We have a problem. Humanity. Imo.

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We are seeing more of this kind of behavior because of the media being more pravalent and only reporting this sort of content, not because it is more rampant. Although things have changed as you mentioned with commercialism, sex is used to market everything. That didn't used to be the case, you're right about that (I think this Advil liqui-gels commercial was implying I could pick up chicks by using it...). The thinking that morals are changing is complete and utter bullshit in my opinion. Sure, more things have become acceptable that you may or may not agree with. But the basic morals are changing? Like what? We believe killing is right? We think drugs are great? No. That isn't true. Oh boy, a kid brought drugs to school. Let's report that. Who cares about real news? Here's a thought: maybe the kid really did think it was a oregano. What a fucking concept. This rant isn't really directed at you weeve, but I just get sick and tired of being bombarded with all this "morals are on a downward spiral" crap.

I know it's not at me, your a chill dood shocker. You have had my respect, and will continue to. WEll I agree, except for that morals aren't changing. That whole belief that people would center, or get better equainted with good, that I had myself, was gone when things were aired in our media like people jumping from buildings. Along with bombs being dropped over, and over. Seeing R rated things created by our nation, and others on live tv. Or plastered on the web, or even on normal paper.

I agree that the news is total bull fucking shit, in the fowarded aspects of things such as cnn, or abcnews, or even our local papers. They started a long while ago to "jump on the band wagon" of this so called media hype, a try at attracting gen x'ers for their ratings. Which for a time worked, then we got bored. Now we have kids half our age that are watching this new wave that was made for us. Most of us are moving on in life, money, jobs, sex, college, life. The kids out there below our age are many times more advanced in adaptation, and disordered problems then we were imo though.

Thus with "normal" things like divorce or death, the skew of what should be "norm" actions, and events begins to warp.

That's about all I have to say about that.

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